Animals like tigers, rhinos and elephants are hunted for the high mercantile value they attract in the international markets. |
|
They have a music video featuring them, rocking out in a van across Vancouver, hunted by UFOs and dragons. |
|
During the past 10 years, an average of 35 red deer, 50 roe deer, and 100 wild boar were hunted annually. |
|
Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena. |
|
Large primates, such as the woolly monkey, are often hunted by rural villagers when other sources of protein are scarce. |
|
The rest of the known conspirators were hunted down or died while resisting arrest. |
|
They hunted in a pack and even dressed alike in a semi-aware expression of mutual love. |
|
I have seen hunting and have friends who have hunted, but I am not a hunting person myself. |
|
For centuries hawksbills have been hunted for this carapace, the natural source of tortoiseshell, and for eggs highly prized in some societies. |
|
Popular species hunted were common blesbok, southern impala, East Cape kudu and common springbok. |
|
They helped raise the young, gather food such as yuccas and other plants and even hunted smaller animals such as rodents and turtles. |
|
After having had disturbing dreams about being hunted by the CIA for crimes committed with bookends, she awoke feeling unrested. |
|
To add to the general excitement, a couple of tigers were let loose on the racetrack to be hunted! |
|
In addition to buffalo, men hunted larger game, such as deer, moose, mountain sheep, antelope, and elk. |
|
Back in the days when whalers hunted sperm whales, they often reported seeing fish fly through the air when the leviathans surfaced. |
|
Any question you have can be hunted down in a matter of minutes, and most of the sites are laid out pretty linearly. |
|
South Africa contributes about 30 percent of lions hunted in sub-Saharan Africa. |
|
Call it battle fatigue, combat trauma, or the stress of being the hunted instead of being the hunter in a hostile terrain. |
|
Men in Aranda society hunted with a variety of implements including spears, spear throwers, and nonreturning boomerangs. |
|
Females hunted for araneid spiders among the dense vegetation bordering the sand in which they nested. |
|
|
Tracking down a horrifying killer, a rookie cop discovers what it is like for the hunter to become the hunted. |
|
They all fall to the ground and lie quivering like the tail of a hunted lizard. |
|
Generations of East Texans had hunted deer with dogs, depending on the howling canines to roust deer from the region's thickets. |
|
We know that they hunted animals with bows and arrows and that they wove textiles using looms. |
|
Soon, they stumble upon a baby who is being hunted by sabertooths, and the two decide to return it to its owner. |
|
Youngsters enjoyed a lucky dip, face-painting and a treasure hunt, while parents hunted for bargains and stocked up on delicious homebaked cakes. |
|
Commercially grown and wild populations of Barbary sheep are legally hunted in New Mexico and Texas. |
|
Over centuries they were hunted to the brink of extinction in the big game safaris of southern Africa. |
|
Given the small size of the prey hunted by modern lynxes, it is not likely that this extinct species was a predator of large mammals. |
|
These beasts lived largely in the sea and marginal river basins, where they hunted prey with their formidable crab-like claws. |
|
In the decades that followed, manufacturers avidly hunted for ways to boost productivity. |
|
Gangsters used to be criminals who took off on crime sprees and lived to be hunted by the law. |
|
In the research literature, there has been some confusion about the species of mammoths hunted in the past. |
|
The last time you were in Las Vegas, you scooped up too many tchotchkes at Comdex, emptied your pockets at the slot machines, hunted for fossils. |
|
Aborigines and white men alike hunted bilbies for their fur in earlier times. |
|
They were left to be hunted and terrorized by a group of sociopathic slayers. |
|
Most of them depict the predator hunting its staple prey, the bezoar goat, or being hunted by men. |
|
They were nervy sorts, fidgety, who watched your hands as you used the mobile or hunted in your bag for something but would never catch your eye. |
|
Most elk are hunted in the forest, although I do know of migrational paths that change that story. |
|
It is sixty years since the fall of the Third Reich, and the hunted monster is now a pathetic and doddering old man in his nineties. |
|
|
They hunted alligator and went shrimping and had their own little wooden shrimp boats. |
|
Inuit have hunted belugas whale for centuries, and follow their own principle of conservation, without government regulation. |
|
However, in my opinion, animals that are slaughtered in abattoirs can suffer just as much as foxes that are hunted. |
|
Shown in cave paintings in France and Spain, these were a favourite quarry of Palaeolithic hunters, and were eventually hunted to extinction. |
|
Whereas the goat, dog, cow, and cat are domesticated, the antelope, leopard, elephant, waterbuck, manatee, and hippopotamus must be hunted. |
|
The most abundant and widespread of all waterfowl, the mallard is also the most hunted game bird. |
|
Smaller animals such as raccoons, squirrels and rabbits are also hunted for sport. |
|
Budding actors and actresses are being hunted by producers of a new movie due to be filmed in East Lancashire. |
|
Duke hunted along the dashboard for a pen and jotted a few things in the borders of a curling menu. |
|
Masked raiders who beat a publican over the head with a sawn-off shotgun were today being hunted by police. |
|
In fact, most of the westerners residing in Korea during the Choson period hunted. |
|
Fur seals, elephant seals, and the great whales were all hunted to the brink of extinction. |
|
These whales have been hunted to near extinction, and only about 2,500 exist today. |
|
Whales and dolphins were also hunted for their meat, as well as other useful products such as whalebone and fat. |
|
Many carnivores, such as mink, seal, fox, and bobcat, have long been hunted or ranched for their fur. |
|
Pete Peeti and Ngarue Ratapu hunted and gathered across the tribal regions, gleaning knowledge from the locals and cooking up some beautiful kai. |
|
Several of the early timber splitters regularly hunted kangaroos or possums to solve this problem. |
|
Native Americans hunted whitetail deer for colonists or offered food to them in exchange for manufactured goods from Europe. |
|
I also hold that the conditions under which animals are kept and hunted are morally wrong. |
|
In 1209 every last inhabitant of the town was mercilessly hunted down and slain by the Albigensian crusaders. |
|
|
Hounds of this breed never give mouth, thus warning the hunted of their approach. |
|
The South Slavey hunted caribou and moose in the forests and along riverbanks. |
|
We hunted and hunted and finally found him playing in the dirt in the treed field. |
|
The multi-coloured Himalayan monal is an attractive pheasant hunted for its attractive feathers and crest, and is almost on the verge of extinction. |
|
But there are still question marks over the future of populations of other species, including blue whales and bowhead whales, both hunted to the verge of extinction. |
|
They are legitimate game and can be hunted from stands or stalked on foot. |
|
Another animal newly classified is the wild Bactrian camel from China and Mongolia, which has been hunted because it competes with domestic camels for water and grazing. |
|
If you were in the zombie apocalypse, would you be a hunter, the hunted, or Tyreese? |
|
Both of us would have liked to have been able to have deer radio collared and then to have them hunted, and then the hunt stop at the end and allow the deer to get away. |
|
Within a few thousand years of human arrival on Australia, all the continent's megafauna were hunted to extinction. |
|
The male Wiccan god is given horns, representing the horned animals that ancient humans hunted. |
|
The feeling of being burned after hoping for peace and the feeling of being hunted down, victimized and targeted is real. |
|
The North Slavey inhabited mountainous areas of the Northwest Territories and hunted mainly caribou and buffalo, using bow and arrows, spears, clubs, snares and twisted sinew. |
|
He had never been this way, and few men would dare to go alone, for the big cats hunted in prides of ten or more, each animal weighing as much as two grown men. |
|
Just the sound, the constant beating of the rotors frightened me, awakened some primal fear of being hunted, made me want to run, to hide or flee. |
|
As patients began to sicken and then die, the staff hunted for the cause. |
|
They also hunted wild pigs as well as the babirusa or pig deer, so named because of their long legs and elongated tusks that curl over the head, at first glance like horns. |
|
The more details emerge, the more it looks as if Martin was hunted and killed by a trigger-happy bully. |
|
That big brain we so tout today was shaped by the mammoths we hunted, by the great cats and bears that sometimes stalked us. |
|
The Weimaraner is an excellent gun dog, which originally hunted big game. |
|
|
Already the Steller's Sea Cow has been hunted into extinction by humans. |
|
With frightening swiftness, nearly all enemy agents inside Confederation borders were rooted out, systematically hunted down, and then eliminated. |
|
The remake is from the perspective of the shark, which was quietly going about its business when it was savagely hunted down by cold-blooded predators. |
|
They are hunted by coyotes, badgers, foxes, owls, and wolverines. |
|
Richard Ben Cramer explores the abduction of Olympic athlete Kari Swenson and the indefatigable sheriff who hunted her abductor. |
|
As the family hunted for anything personal that could be retrieved, they were startled when the phone began to ring. |
|
Species not to be hunted include blue-winged shovellers, hardhead duck, musk duck, freckled duck, pink-eared duck, blued-billed duck and plumed tree duck. |
|
Several threatened species including snow leopard and Tien Shan brown bear are illegally hunted for trade, and many others are traded at unsustainable levels. |
|
The Tasmanian tiger, a dog-like creature christened for its striped pelt, was hunted into extinction because it was seen as a threat to livestock. |
|
I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle. |
|
Verity gave her a small and rather absent smile as she hunted around the kitchen, searching the space near the kettle and the shelves by the window. |
|
He hunted deer in the pelting rain, got tangled up in a cactus, and then shot his buffalo and, in gleeful celebration, performed an Indian war dance over the carcass. |
|
Humans hunted wild animals for meat and gathered food, firewood, and materials for their tools, clothes, or shelters. |
|
Mammals are hunted or raced for sport, and are used as model organisms in science. |
|
One hypothesis is that humans hunted large mammals, such as the woolly mammoth, into extinction. |
|
Those who moved east hunted out the last of wild big game and turned their best efforts into learning to herd what was left. |
|
In Terranova they hunted bowheads and right whales, while in Iceland they appear to have only hunted the latter. |
|
The Barbary lion, hunted to extinction in the wild, was a subspieces native to Morocco and is a national emblem. |
|
The animals were feared by the local boatmen and hunted with lances to which strong cords were attached. |
|
The Arabian ostriches in the Near and Middle East were hunted to extinction by the middle of the 20th century. |
|
|
In tomols, they fished and hunted in island waters and participated in active trade with their neighbors on the other islands and mainland. |
|
While most of that quota is hunted by the indigenous Inuit people, a growing share is sold to recreational hunters. |
|
This subpopulation feeds heavily on ringed seals in late spring, when newly weaned and easily hunted seal pups are abundant. |
|
Between 1849 and 1900, American whaleships hunted bowhead whales in the bay. |
|
The Baldpate and White-winged Dove are two of the four game birds that can be hunted during the 2015 bird-shooting season. |
|
In 1810 a large carnivore killed hundreds of sheep in and around Ennerdale before it was hunted down and killed. |
|
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. |
|
He was filled with the embittered suspicions of a hunted animal, seeing enmity and treachery in his friends and deadly foes in his neighbours. |
|
Many of the bigger species, such as the grey wolf and the brown bear, were hunted to extinction many centuries ago. |
|
During the hallucinogenic high, any characters who have committed significant sins are hunted by the headless ghost. |
|
We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods. |
|
Slept, tiffined, and read in heat of the day. At 4 p.m. hunted again, and finished the evening with a jolly good dinner. |
|
Also known as wildmeat or game meat, the term refers to non-domesticated mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds hunted for food. |
|
Police search for arsonist AN arsonist is being hunted after causing two blazes at a house in North Tyneside. |
|
A MAD axeman was being hunted last night after three revenge attacks in a suspected drugs feud. |
|
Having hunted feral hogs and axis deer on the property in the past, I knew it also held an impressive number of trophy whitetails. |
|
This is harsh country, but I hunted aoudad, also called Barbary sheep, in Chad, on the southern fringe of the Sahara. |
|
Laurence Reich, and I had only one such day and hunted musk ox instead of ringed seals with our Inuit friends. |
|
The semiaquatic mammal is sometimes hunted for its meat and hide. |
|
A gang of yobs on ROLLERBLADES who murdered a Scots tourist were being hunted in Paris last night. |
|
|
Saber-toothed cats hunted throughout much of the world until the last surviving species became extinct approximately 10,000 years ago. |
|
Sea ducks, mainly scoters and long-tailed ducks, along with scaup, redheads and canvasbacks are hunted off shore. |
|
Though the birds face many hazards throughout the journey, the bird watcher stressed they are particularly hunted and shot in Kuwait. |
|
Horned animals such as aoudad, blackbuck and mouflon can be hunted year-round. |
|
Eurypterids, giant ravenous sea scorpions, and other invertebrate predators hunted fishes. |
|
Zoo staff hunted the bongos with blow pipes and rifles loaded with an aesthetic darts but couldn't find the runaways. |
|
The outbreak is believed to be caused by tainted bushmeat hunted by local villagers, according to Reuters. |
|
A SCAR-FACED workman who dragged a 14-year-old schoolgirl from a busy bus station and raped her in broad daylight was being hunted last night. |
|
Li and colleagues hunted for this vanished carbon around northwest China's Tarim Basin. |
|
The experience of being hunted is enhanced when you play with a headset. |
|
Although protected by law, pudus are hunted locally for their hide and meat. |
|
The little windows, fifteen feet up, were darkened with wasp-nests, and lizards hunted flies between the beams of the wood-ceiled roof. |
|
At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night. |
|
The cunningest hunter is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. |
|
Then he hunted for the black carnival domino, supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear. |
|
Unlike a drag hunt, where the scent is laid in a straight line, trailers will be trying to mirror the zigzag path of a hunted fox. |
|
The unseen dragsman had laid a short and clear opening trail, and the hounds hunted it briskly. |
|
The taste of clean killed, still hunted animals far exceeds that of either gut shot deer or those run by dogs. |
|
The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds. |
|
I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him. |
|
|
The plot was discovered, and Wyatt's supporters were hunted down and killed. |
|
Elsewhere in the world, the Navy hunted down the handful of German surface raiders at large. |
|
Birds, deer, hares and foxes were hunted with bow and spear, and later with crossbows. |
|
Truffles, maitake, matsutake, king boletes, shiitake and dozens of other edible types are hunted commercially around the planet. |
|
In some areas, coyote are considered fair game when hunting with foxhounds, even if they are not the intended species being hunted. |
|
Jackals were not hunted often in this manner, as they were slower than foxes and could scarcely outrun greyhounds after 200 yards. |
|
Examples of notable works which involve characters' becoming involved with a hunt or being hunted are listed below. |
|
Hunter certificates are issued to horses that have hunted for at least four days in the season before racing starts in January. |
|
British Royal Navy warships tirelessly hunted down pirate vessels, and almost always won these engagements. |
|
The British Royal Navy systematically hunted them down, though not without some embarrassment from its inability to protect Allied shipping. |
|
The islands' only native terrestrial mammal, the warrah, was hunted to extinction by European settlers. |
|
As for the animals, in many parts of Europe most large animals and top predator species have been hunted to extinction. |
|
Political factors can play a part if a species is protected, or actively hunted, in one jurisdiction but not another. |
|
A traditional gamebird, the capercaillie has been widely hunted with guns and dogs throughout its territory in central and northern Europe. |
|
Several of these boars escaped, though they were quickly hunted down by locals. |
|
Owain remained free, but he had lost his ancestral home and was a hunted prince. |
|
However, birds are hunted with some regularity as well, especially by males. |
|
Sea otters have about 26,000 to 165,000 hairs per square centimeters of skin, a rich fur for which humans hunted them almost to extinction. |
|
Otters have been hunted for their pelts from at least the 1700s, although it may have begun well before then. |
|
European polecat hunting was once a favourite sport of the Westmorland dalesmen and the Scots, who hunted them at night in midwinter. |
|
|
Dolphins are sometimes hunted in places like Japan, in an activity known as dolphin drive hunting. |
|
Dolphins and other smaller cetaceans are also hunted in an activity known as dolphin drive hunting. |
|
By numbers, dolphins are mostly hunted for their meat, though some end up in dolphinariums. |
|
Porpoises were, and still are, hunted by some countries by means of drive hunting. |
|
Porpoises and other smaller cetaceans, mainly dolphins, are hunted in an activity known as drive hunting. |
|
In turn they are hunted by larger pelagic animals such as tuna, billfish, sea lions, sharks and pelicans. |
|
Nobles hunted various wild game and consumed mutton, pork, dog, and beef as these animals were domesticated. |
|
Whale was hunted by Native Americans off the Northwest coast, especially by the Makah, and used for their meat and oil. |
|
In fact, some species may have been hunted to extinction by early human hunters. |
|
Harbour porpoises were traditionally hunted for food, as well as for their blubber, which was used for lighting fuel. |
|
Currently, however, this species is not subject to commercial hunting, but it is hunted for food and sold locally in Greenland. |
|
In prehistoric times, this animal was hunted by the Alby People of the east coast of Oland, Sweden. |
|
Populations have been hunted off the coast of Peru for use as food and shark bait. |
|
Like all other large whales, the fin whale was heavily hunted during the 20th century and is an endangered species. |
|
The species is also hunted by Greenlanders under the IWC's Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling provisions. |
|
The whales were hunted initially for whale oil but, as meat preservation technology improved, their value as food increased. |
|
The northern bottlenose was hunted heavily by Norway and Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
|
Other than commercial hunts, killer whales were hunted along Japanese coasts out of public concern for potential conflicts with fisheries. |
|
Gray whales were once called devil fish because of their fighting behavior when hunted. |
|
Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale. |
|
|
The North Atlantic population may have been hunted to extinction in the 18th century. |
|
Once relentlessly hunted by commercial industries for their products, seals and walruses are now protected by international law. |
|
They are typically hunted by groups of 10 or fewer whales, but they are occasionally hunted by larger groups or by lone individuals. |
|
The northern elephant seal was hunted to near extinction in the late 19th century, with only a small population remaining on Guadalupe Island. |
|
Cetaceans have been relentlessly hunted by commercial industries for their products, although this is now forbidden by international law. |
|
Most hunted whales are now threatened, with some great whale populations exploited to the brink of extinction. |
|
Dolphins and other smaller cetaceans are hunted in an activity known as dolphin drive hunting. |
|
Marine mammals were first hunted by aboriginal peoples for food and other resources. |
|
Marine mammals were hunted by coastal aboriginal humans historically for food and other resources. |
|
Polar bears can be hunted for sport in Canada with a special permit and accompaniment by a local guide. |
|
They are still an important food source for the people of Nunavut and are also hunted and eaten in Alaska. |
|
They are hunted by Norway and Iceland, with a quota of about 1,000 per year in Norway. |
|
All 3 populations are hunted commercially, mainly by Canada, Norway, Russia and Greenland. |
|
Seal pups are hunted for their blue and black pelts and many mothers are killed in the process, attempting to protect their young. |
|
During the 19th century and the early 20th century, walruses were widely hunted and killed for their blubber, walrus ivory, and meat. |
|
Once relentlessly hunted for their products, whales are now protected by international law. |
|
They are typically hunted by groups of 10 or fewer orcas, but they are seldom attacked by an individual. |
|
Besides buffalo, the Mandan trapped small mammals for food and hunted deer. |
|
The chiru or Tibetan antelope is hunted for its pelt, which is used in making shahtoosh, an incredibly fine material used in shawls. |
|
The saiga is hunted for its horns, which are considered an aphrodisiac by some cultures. |
|
|
Only the males have horns, and have been so heavily hunted that some herds contain up to 800 females to one male. |
|
The horn of the male saiga, in Eastern practice, is ground as an aphrodisiac, for which it has been hunted nearly to extinction. |
|
The lifespan of brown bears of both sexes within minimally hunted populations is estimated at an average of 25 years. |
|
North American brown bears have at times been so feared by the natives, that they were rarely hunted, especially alone. |
|
In this period, foxes were increasingly hunted above ground with hounds, rather than underground with terriers. |
|
Hares have traditionally been hunted in Britain by beagling and hare coursing. |
|
In beagling, the hare is hunted with a pack of small hunting dogs, beagles, followed by the human hunters on foot. |
|
In some areas, they are common victims of road kills and may be hunted by dogs, such as in Sardinia. |
|
In some cases, such as in Guam, flying foxes have become endangered through being hunted for food. |
|
However, in some areas of intensive agriculture it has reduced in numbers due to loss of habitat and in others it is hunted as a pest. |
|
European badgers are of little significance to hunting economies, though they may be actively hunted locally. |
|
Fallow deer have also been introduced in Texas, along with many other exotic deer species, where they are often hunted on large game ranches. |
|
Tolstoy's War and Peace and Chekhov's Peasants both feature scenes in which wolves are hunted with hounds and borzois. |
|
Not only did this completely change the ethnography of the region, most large game was hunted out before whites ever fully explored the land. |
|
Although owls have long been hunted, a 2008 news story from Malaysia indicates that the magnitude of owl poaching may be on the rise. |
|
Mosses, lichens, and scanty bushes around the coasts serve as food to the deer and musk oxen, which in turn are hunted by the polar bear. |
|
It is generally accepted that Clovis people hunted mammoths, as Clovis points have repeatedly been found in sites containing mammoth remains. |
|
However, there are numerous examples of women who hunted, out of necessity or as a personal choice. |
|
Small pelagic fish are usually forage fish that are hunted by larger pelagic fish and other predators. |
|
Many of these fish hunt forage fish, but are in turn hunted by yet larger pelagic fish. |
|
|
From manatee hides, Native Americans made war shields, canoes, and shoes, though manatees were predominantly hunted for their abundant meat. |
|
They became extinct at the same time as the appearance of man, and it is assumed humans hunted them for food. |
|
Traditionally eiders are hunted from rocks, a tough proposition involving chasing the tideline up and down and moving the spread constantly. |
|
In the 18th century, the Steller's sea cow was hunted to extinction in the Aleutian Islands within 27 years of being discovered. |
|
Utah is one of four states in the Pacific Flyway where tundra swans can be hunted. |
|
For local inhabitants, the collared peccary represents a major source of meat and income and is one of the most hunted species. |
|
This is the moment I made twits of the twitchers as we hunted a rare visitor from overseas. |
|
They are known as deprivers, and they are reviled, shunned, feared and hunted. |
|
The study looked at fish traditionally hunted by the local people including snappers, triggerfish, parrotfish and surgeonfish. |
|
Red deer and onager are present among the large hunted species, besides the gazelle. |
|
Moore says she hunted and fished all her life, so when she decided on a job in law enforcement, becoming a game warden was a natural choice. |
|
As he exchanged his bow and arrow for his dentist's drill, the hunter ended his silence to complain how he had now become the hunted. |
|
And that could be the salvation for bowmouth sharks, hunted for their large pectoral fins. |
|
It will explain how bone-cracking dogs, dire wolves and saber-toothed tigers hunted hoofed animals. |
|
You might be hunted down and beaten, or accused of witchcraft. |
|
They also hunted the Disenchantment Bay harbor seals, Phoca vitulina, and continue to do so today. |
|
The Doosra specialist, in 35 Tests and 113 ODIs has hunted down 178 and 184 victims for the national team. |
|
The largest predators and humans hunted the mammals of the open tundra. |
|
Some animals hunted were the red deer, moose, horse, Irish elk and beaver. |
|
Wild reindeer are still hunted in Greenland and in North America. |
|
|
With Donoghue's testimony, Hart was hunted down found and was arrested. |
|
Otters have also been hunted using dogs, specifically the otterhound. |
|
The video touches on the hunt and the hunted, Stockholm syndrome, and when right and wrong are not easily defined in a blood-thirsty, chaotic society. |
|
They continue to be hunted in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. |
|
Gradually, hypocrisy was hunted down, often by fan rivalry and less convincingly by journalists who lectured about bigotry but stuffily believed they were always right. |
|
However, in some areas it is abundant and is hunted for its fur. |
|
The bird has not been hunted in Scotland or Germany for over 30 years. |
|
The small populations were then hunted out by Paleolithic humans. |
|
Manatees were traditionally hunted by indigenous Caribbean people. |
|
They could have been washed onto the shore or hunted in shallow waters. |
|
While Odysseus was away praying, his men ignored the warnings of Tiresias and Circe and hunted the sacred cattle of the sun god Helios as their food had run short. |
|
The Antarctic fur seal was very heavily hunted in the 18th and 19th centuries for its pelt by sealers from the United States and the United Kingdom. |
|
Eighty percent of the DNA of most Britons, according to modern research, has been passed down from a few thousand individuals who hunted in this region after the last Ice Age. |
|
Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner. |
|
Pheasants were hunted in their natural range by Stone Age humans just like the grouse, partridges, junglefowls and perhaps peacocks that inhabited Europe at that time. |
|
Doves and pigeons are considered to be game birds, as many species have been hunted and used for food in many of the countries in which they are native. |
|
In Kazakhstan and Mongolia, wolves are traditionally hunted with eagles and falcons, though this practise is declining, as experienced falconers are becoming few in number. |
|
In Alberta, wolves on private land may be baited and hunted by the landowner without requiring a license, and in some areas, wolf hunting bounty programs exist. |
|
They are hunted by locals in very steep and heavily vegetated terrain. |
|
In the past they were also hunted by the now extinct Caspian tiger. |
|
|
Not peace through the medium of war, not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations, not peace to arise out of universal discord. |
|
Birds were hunted for meat and feathers, the latter used for adornment. |
|
Modern doctrine calls for ground mines to be hunted rather than swept. |
|
The walrus has played a prominent role in the cultures of many indigenous Arctic peoples, who have hunted the walrus for its meat, fat, skin, tusks, and bone. |
|
After the northern sea otter was hunted to local extinction, maritime fur traders shifted to California until the southern sea otter was likewise nearly extinct. |
|
Interestingly, there is generally an absence from environmental remains of hunted game and wild species as well as fresh and sea water species, even in coastal communities. |
|
Mexico's volcano rabbit, a small, primitive species of lagomorph that forms a sort of biological bridge between pikas and hares, is still being hunted for food by farmers. |
|
This species was also historically hunted along the New England coastline. |
|
In most other areas, the dolphins have not been hunted directly. |
|
In some countries, turtles and their eggs are hunted for food. |
|
Commonly hunted game included deer, bear, buffalo, and wild turkey. |
|
William was known for his love of hunting, and he introduced the forest law into areas of the country, regulating who could hunt and what could be hunted. |
|
But as he put down his bow and arrow in exchange for his dentist's drill, the hunter ended his silence to complain how he had now become the hunted. |
|
Animals were hunted with an atlatl or rudimentary bow and arrow. |
|
Soldiers encamped in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, an area rich in flora and fauna, hunted elephants, zebras, Cape buffalo and other animals for food. |
|
These animals cruise the countryside without worry of being hunted, lapping up winterkilled game, raiding unprotected garbage cans, and grazing in grain fields. |
|
Where official protection is accorded, it is usually on paper only, as the serow is hunted for meat and its body parts, which are used in local medicine. |
|
To make them relocate, they were denied from accessing water from their land and faced arrest if they hunted, which was their primary source of food. |
|
Polar bear were hunted heavily in Savalbard, Norway throughout the 19th century and to as recently as 1973, when the conservation treaty was signed. |
|
Although it is not so documented, it is likely that the 1808 Russian expedition to Bodega Bay that nearly wiped out the local otters and fur seals hunted in Bolinas Lagoon. |
|
|
People used reed fishing canoes, hunted, and traded using bronze coins. |
|
He apparently enjoyed excellent health throughout his life, as he traveled frequently, got involved in wars from an early age and at age 60 still hunted. |
|
Zebras were, and still are, hunted for their skins, and for meat. |
|
The study also suggests cave diners hunted the lion, Panthera leo fossilis, a cave lion about seven feet long, considerably bigger than today's African lions. |
|
A new study of the diet of 90 species has challenged the conventional view that nearly all theropods hunted prey, especially those closest to the ancestors of birds. |
|
The inhabitants of this civilization, which lasted roughly from 5500 to 2750 BC, practiced agriculture, raised livestock, hunted, and made intricately designed pottery. |
|
The old fauna persisted in Central Asia, but were soon hunted out, as they were not replenished by the larger areas formerly nourishing the ecosystem. |
|
In the former Soviet Union, polecats are hunted chiefly in late autumn and early winter with guns and hunting dogs, as well as foothold traps and wooden snares. |
|